Jatiya Party chairman and former president Hussain Muhammad Ershad said today his party has to be a powerful organisation to build a peaceful and prosperous country. He called upon the leaders and workers of different political parties and rganisations, who joined Jatiya Party, to shun the path of destructive and anarchic politics.
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain summoned four top party leaders of Chittagong unit for making decision regarding city unit council, which was foiled on Monday due to intra-party clash, sources said. Party insiders said the high command took the matter seriously and decided to take stern actions to send a message to the squabbling party leaders across the country so that the plan to hold councils is not hampered.
Grassroots leaders and activists of the opposition BNP became sharply divided in most of the party’s district units over holding council sessions to establish factional stronghold. With just 21 days left before the party’s national council session, no committee could be formed of any district unit and the first two attempts to hold council sessions at district levels were marred by in-party violence.
BNP's Chittagong metropolitan unit conference, organised after long 20 years, ended in a pandemonium on Monday when the rival groups locked into clashes injuring at least 50 workers.
The BNP has selected Paltan Maidan as the venue of inaugural gathering of its much-awaited national council. The business sessions will be held at Bangabandhu Friendship Convocation Centre at Sher-e-Banglanagar, party sources said. Top leaders of all political parties, including Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be invited to attend the inaugural session of the council, said a joint secretary general of BNP.
The opposition BNP's sub-committee on the amendment to the party constitution and the manifesto on Sunday night submitted a 40-point amendment proposal to the standing committee consolidating the authority of the party chairperson.
BNP Secretary General Khondoker Delwar Hossain yesterday expressed his hope that the nation would accept the final judgment of the Supreme Court in handing down the real accused in the Bangabandhu murder case.
BNP is planning to bring massive changes to the party constitution bolstering the chairperson's authority, in light of its experience during the immediate past emergency regime when it almost split. The amendment proposals also include one for electing the secretary general through the national council, and another for expansion of the central executive committee.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) joint secretary general Mirza Abbas yesterday urged the government not to hatch any conspiracy to spoil the party national council.
"If you (government) can't cooperate with us, it doesn't matter but please don't make any plot to ruin our national council scheduled to be held on December 8," he said while talking to the newsmen at the party central office at Naya Paltan in the city.
Apparel owners' association BGMEA has urged the opposition chief to return to parliament and discuss their problems. "I sincerely request you, as the opposition leader in parliament, to discuss our proposals in the House," BGMEA president Abdus Salam Murshedi said to Khaleda Zia at the closing ceremony of the BATEXPO-2009 at Sonargaon Hotel on Friday. Khaleda attended the programme as the chief guest.
